as in dispersion
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Recent Examples of dilation
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Dealing with the effects of time-dilation on the characters, where the high-school protagonist Noriko Takaya stays young while her friends and classmates age around her, also has similarities to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Dealing with the effects of time-dilation on the characters, where the high-school protagonist Noriko Takaya stays young while her friends and classmates age around her, also has similarities to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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Avocados’ dependence upon megafaunal dispersion almost led to their undoing when all of these large mammals suddenly went extinct around 12,500 years ago due to human hunting, possibly also combined with environmental or climactic effects.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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And rendering specialists need it to accurately simulate real-world optical effects like dispersion (rainbows from prisms, for example) and fluorescence.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her matching set consisted of a pencil skirt and blazer cinched with a belt, all of which featured a scattering of white polka dots against a sky blue fabric.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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When the team treated the duck fat with lipases, mixed it with normal liver, and then studied it with X-ray scattering and other techniques, the result was remarkably similar to foie gras.—
Ari Daniel,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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